COWBOY JACK CLEMENT'S HOME MOVIES ~

 

A Documentary about Nashville's Maverick songwriter/producer, 'Cowboy' Jack Clement

DAMIEN RICE ~

 

   14th Floor Records

 Feb. 1, 2002

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ~

 from Song of Hiawatha

And the Jossakeeds, the Prophets,

The Wabenos, the Magicians,

And the Medicine-men, the Medas,

Painted upon bark and deer-skin

Figures for the songs they chanted,

For each song a separate symbol,

Figures mystical and awful,

Figures strange and brightly colored;

And each figure had its meaning,

Each some magic song suggested.

_______________________

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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PATTI SMITH AND THE PEOPLE ~

 

       March 23, 2026

R.L. BURNSIDE TONIGHT ~

 

    1978

MALICK SIDIBE ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Foundation Cartier

     2017

AUGIE MEYERS ~

 

A U G I E   M E Y E R S

          John Anderson/The Austin Chronicle, via Getty Images

M O R E

DEBORAH DIGGES ~

    

    So Light You Were

I Would Have Carried You

So light you were

I would have carried you,

hacked from the ice

a bridge,

you in my arms,

from February into April.

And crossed

above the snow

banked narrowing

the streets, this winter's

tired citizens, the erlking

and his foundling crossing.

Light as you were

I would have carried you

from the room

of your death back

to our room,

climbed back,

crawled up the stairs

to our bed.

From February into

April, hid in your arms

in the woods

frantic please.

Light as we were.

And could be carried out

on a float of last year's

leaves

and bracken thaw

rinsing the tide pools.

So light you were.

I would have carried you

from February

into April.

___________________________

Deborah Digges

Trapeze

Knopf, 2004

PRINCE TONIGHT ~

 

Parade - Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon ℗ 1986 Warner Records Inc.

ROBERT M. WEST ~

 

Heartbeat

Hold me

too

close to

tell

whose is

whose.

Echo

A lone

voice

in the

right

empty space

makes

its own

best

company.

Exposure

What you're

eager to

believe may

say more

about you

than you'd

be eager

to admit.

Ulysses

Even frailer,

bound for failure

die at sea or home

I roam.

________________________________

Robert M. West

A Clear Eye

Broadstone Books, 2026

HELL (Sleater-Kinney) TONIGHT ~

 

   2024

RILKE'S GARDEN ~

 

R E A D   M E

        Seagull Books, 2025

REBECCA SOLNIT'S ROAD ~

 

R E A D   M E

        Haymarket 2025

ZANZIBARA TONIGHT ~

 

Musiciens: Matano Juma ; Yasseen Mohamed ; Zuhura Swaleh ; Ali Mkali ; Zein l’Abdin ; Maulidi Juma ; Zuhura & Zein Musical Part ; Ahmed bin Brek 

Production exécutive / éditeur / transferts / restauration / mastering : Werner Graebner

Enregistrements : Zanzibar (2004) ; Dubaï (2005)

Prise de son : Werner Graebner

TIM O'BRIEN (VIETNAM WAR) ~

 

Writer and veteran Tim O'Brien reflects on the moral weight of the Vietnam War’s most infamous atrocity. Official website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe... | #AmericanExperiencePBS In this interview from the American Experience archives, novelist and Vietnam War veteran Tim O'Brien, author of "The Things They Carried," reflects on the legacy of the 1968 My Lai massacre, in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. O’Brien discusses how the massacre shaped Americans’ understanding of the war, the moral and psychological toll on the soldiers involved, and the challenges of confronting painful truths about the past. Drawing on his experience as both a veteran and a writer, O’Brien explores how memory, storytelling, and accountability shape the way societies remember war. His reflections illuminate the broader context of the conflict and the lasting impact of My Lai on American public life. O’Brien spoke to American Experience on November 20, 2009. This interview was conducted for our 2015 documentary MY LAI and is being published as part of our series spotlighting remarkable archival conversations with historians, journalists, eyewitnesses, and other primary sources whose insights deepen our understanding of the past. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

JEAN FOLLAIN ~

Day on Fire

The door shined in fiery daylight

but the braids of the women there

held still

one of them leaned over the waters on the cauldron

and on a piece of porcelain

a painted bird had worn itself out with singing.

The messenger was seen to come in

with a letter and a golden loaf in his hands

he spoke

then it was dead silence

and the whole garden gave up its scent.

Landscape with Two Laborers

The countyside was calm

a girl was washing her unblemished leg

and the hours

etched themselves into the cloth they faded

attacking the damask flowers.

The pages of a schoolbook

had been carried off by the wind

up above the eglantines

and down the length of the path

to ditches filled with clever beasts

to embankments covered in those herbs

favored for soothing teas

two laborers took their time

telling each other

the secrets of working with wood.

The Notice

The child pushing along the ring of a barrel

as his makeshift hoop

runs alone and shouts

but to the one who has just spelled out

beneath the N and the eagle of Empire

the draft notice

the old man says simply

in the blazing sun

while drinking a foamy pear cider:

"the next century will be worse"

though lovers go by singing.

Edge of the Hearth

The outbuildings with no real use

are left to the rains

a peasant woman

has an edge of the black hearth

for a seat

the evening turns

in swirls of her breath

the wind in the hollow tree

why beings and things

she thinks

and not nothing

_______________________________

Jean Follain

Earthly

The Song Cave 2025

translated by Andrew Seguin

WOODEN SHJIPS "BACK TO LAND" ~

 

    2013

A CHANCE MEETING ~

 

R E A D   M E

2004

2024, reissued

AEDNAN ~

 

R E A D   M E

   Knopf 2024